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Dust
Cover art for New XMen: Hellions #2.Art by Clayton Henry.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance New XMen #133 (December2002)
Created by Grant MorrisonFrank QuitelyEthan Van Sciver
Instory information
Alter ego Sooraya Qadir
Species Human Mutant
Team affiliations Hellions training squadNew XMenXavier InstituteXMenInTrainingYoung XMenJean Grey School Students
Dust (comics)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dust (real name Sooraya Qadir[1]), is a fictionalcharacter, a superheroine in Marvel Comics' XMenrelated comic books. She was created by authorGrant Morrison and artist Ethan Van Sciver in NewXMen #133 (December 2002), although hercharacter was not fully developed until the New XMen: Academy X series written by Christina Weirand Nunzio DeFilippis. Sooraya is a mutant with theability to transform her body into a malleable cloudof dust. The XMen travel to Afghanistan to rescueSooraya, whose abilities have made her the target ofslavers.
Born in Afghanistan, Sooraya is attacked by a slavetrader attempting to remove her traditional niqāb;almost instinctively, she lashes out with her powersand flays him alive with her sandlike dust. The XMen, hearing of the situation, travel to Afghanistanand rescue her, where she is brought to the USA andbecomes a student of the Xavier Institute for HigherLearning. After the actions of the Scarlet Witch (inwhich millions of mutants lost their powers),Sooraya remains one of the few mutants to keep theirpowers. She is currently a member of the Young XMen team. She is a rare example of a positiveMuslim comic book character.[2]
Contents
1 Fictional character biography1.1 Origin1.2 Xavier Institute1.3 Hellions Squad1.4 Decimation1.5 Mercury Falling1.6 Quest for Magik1.7 World War Hulk1.8 Messiah Complex1.9 Secret Invasion1.10 Young XMen1.11 Necrosha1.12 Second Coming
1.13 Curse of the Mutants
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Abilities Able to transform into andcontrol a malleable sand form
1.13 Curse of the Mutants1.14 Post Schism
2 Powers and abilities3 Family4 Observing Islamic Hijab5 Other versions
5.1 House of M5.2 XMen: The End5.3 Young XMen "End of Days"
6 In other media6.1 Television6.2 Novels6.3 Film6.4 Video Games
7 References8 External links
Fictional character biography
Origin
Dust is an adolescent Sunni Muslim girl who possesses the mutant power to turn herself into a sandlikesubstance. Born in Afghanistan, Sooraya is kidnapped by a slavetrading ring after she is separated from hermother. While one of her slavers tries to remove her niqāb, she instinctively lashes out with her powers andflays them all alive with her dust form before passing out. She is subsequently discovered and rescued byWolverine and Fantomex. Wolverine takes her to the XCorps base in India. Sooraya hides herself from theXMen stationed there by turning into sand and spreading herself around the complex. Phoenix sensesSooraya's presence and telepathically convinces her to reveal herself to everyone present. Sooraya reformsand announces her presence by speaking a single word: Turaab (Arabic for dust/sand).[3]
Xavier Institute
Ultimately, Dust is enrolled at the Xavier Institute in Westchester County, New York. Quiet and nervous,she experiences difficulty adapting to her new surroundings particularly after being given the loud andrebellious Noriko as a roommate. Sooraya and Noriko often come to disagreements over the traditional garbwhich Noriko believes to be an affront to women's rights.[4] Sooraya is initially placed into Xorn's SpecialClass and is picked on by Xorn for standing by her faith and allegedly placing its importance over the causeof mutants. Frightened, she then alerts Professor X to Xorn's 'true' identity. She attempts to use her powersto do so, but Xorn manages to defeat her and Xavier.[5]
Hellions Squad
After the conclusion of New XMen where leadership of the school goes to Emma Frost and Cyclops,Sooraya is made a member of the Hellions training squad. She opts to observe Islamic hijab rather thanwear a standard training costume, though it does bear the standard 'X' insignia.[6] She forges a friendship
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with Icarus. He asks her to the school dance, but she declines since the idea of the dance made heruncomfortable, though she did not feel insulted by his asking nor did Icarus feel insulted due to herrejection.[7]
After winning the field day competition with the rest of the Hellions and the academic year ended, Hellion(Julian Keller) had invited the Hellion Squad to his home in Los Angeles for summer vacation. While there,the Hellion Squad meets the Kingmaker, a powerful criminal with the power to make "dreams come true"through favors and connections, but for whom favors are expected in return. When each of the Hellionsagree to the deal, Sooraya's wish was to find her mother. The Kingmaker finds Sooraya's mother andarranges for a trip back to Afghanistan so that Sooraya can meet up with her. She is soon flown back toL.A. to deliver on her part of the deal; stealing an advanced bioweapon, which they learn later will be soldto Doctor Octopus in New York. The Hellion Squad breaks their deal with the Kingmaker and end updestroying the weapon. As a result, Sooraya loses her connection to her mother as she learns she has beenmoved again with no hope of tracking her, leaving her devastated.
Decimation
Main article: Decimation
After House of M, Wanda Maximoff depowered over 90% of the mutant population, thereby reducing thepopulation of Xavier's student body to only 27 students (including Dust). The squad system has beendissolved, and the remaining students have been merged into one large group.[8] She is also paired asroommates with X23.[9]
Sooraya becomes a target of William Stryker's crusade against the Xavier Institute, as he expresses his needto "eliminate the Muslim."[10] Icarus gives her a note, which X23 tells Sooraya not to trust, as Icarus"smells like death". In reality, Stryker wishes to eliminate her because Nimrod has a vision of an alteredfuture in its memory banks which shows Dust defeating all the Purifiers during their planned future attackon the school. Wallflower was previously killed by the Purifiers because of Nimrod's portrayal of her abilityto turn the tide of the fight with her pheromones. Upon entering the church of Reverend Stryker, she isshown being shot down, though it is later revealed to be X23 wearing one of Sooraya's niqābs. Learningthe Purifier's true intentions and that he was tricked into leading "Sooraya" to her death, Icarus is killed byStryker. When Stryker's team infiltrates the school, Dust awakens in the bathroom, having been knockedout by X23. She enters the fight and surprises Stryker, singlehandedly defeating most of his Purifiers andseverely wounding Stryker's follower, Matthew Risman.[11]
She, with the help of the rest of the New XMen, later defeat Nimrod, Stryker's backup plan for destroyingthe mutants.
The Institute holds a memorial for the mutants lost during MDay; Sooraya cries with Icarus' mother whenshe comes to the Institute and apologizes for not being able to do more to save her son. His mother tells herthat Icarus thought she was a beautiful person.[12]
Mercury Falling
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While Hellion and X23 go off to rescue Mercury from the Facility, Sooraya is left at the mansion butlearns vital information from Pixie of what happened. Sooraya immediately tells Nori and David Alleynewhat she knows; Dust and the remaining team are about to leave the Institute, but are stopped byShadowcat, who brings them in for the time being to tell them about the whereabouts of their teammatesand friends.
The "Astonishing" team and the remaining XMen, accompanied by the O*N*E* Sentinel, go off to theFacility and rescue Hellion, X23, and Mercury.
Quest for Magik
Dust is shown praying to God before being teleported with the other students to Limbo where she is heldcaptive by Belasco and his demons. X23 breaks free and urges Dust and Mercury to join her in fightingBelasco. Dust is too afraid of Belasco, believing him to be the Devil, but when X23 is seemingly killed,Dust breaks free and attacks Belasco, saying that if she is to die in battle against "the Devil", she wouldmake Allah proud. Dust and Mercury fight with Belasco and manage to hold their own due to the fact thattheir transient forms give them limited resistance to Belasco's magic. When Surge and Hellion arrive, thetwo girls are exhausted and can only watch as Belasco tries to pull Earth into Limbo. He fends off everystudent of the Xavier Institute until he is slain by Pixie and the Darkchild.
World War Hulk
Main article: World War Hulk
Dust is part of the New XMen in a training session supervised by Beast that goes up against the Hulk whenhe comes to the mansion. She attacks him in her sand form after he defeats Hellion, but she too is defeatedwhen Hulk pulls a water pipe up from the ground and sprays water at her, taking her out of the fight.
She is also quizzed by Pixie about her beliefs and choice of dress and has her shoulder fixed by Beast afterit is dislocated during the fight with Belasco. She also checks on Julian at the urging of Mercury, after Norikisses him.[13]
Messiah Complex
Main article: XMen: Messiah Complex
Regrouping after their failed attack under the leadership of Matthew Risman, the Purifiers are keeping trackof the escaped Predator X. Horribly scarred by Dust's attack, Matthew is fixated on training Predator X toseek out and kill Sooraya by using abayas and niqabs bearing some recognizable quality of hers (possiblyher scent). While being trained to seek out and kill Dust, Predator X senses the mutant it was originallycreated to destroy (the unknown mutant featured in XMen: Messiah Complex) and the Purifiers follow.Sooraya neglects to join her teammates in raiding the Purifier's most important base in D.C. merely becauseshe thinks that her squad leader, Surge, is out for vengeance and that she is only ambushing the Purifiers forthe baby as an afterthought. She stays at the mansion alongside Elixir and David and the remainder of thestudent body while the other New XMen and the XMan, Armor, leave.[14]
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Later, the mansion's Megatron Sentinel guard are taken over completely by nanosentinel technology,causing them to battle the XMen. As Hepzibah, Warpath, Bishop, and the student Nezhno fight theSentinels, Dust appears and Cyclops orders her to enter the Sentinels to find out what is going on and stop itif she can. She does, but she runs into the pilots who have been turned into updated versions of PrimeSentinels and they repel her. Dust frantically runs to Cyclops as infantry arrives in the form of Iceman andX23. They manage to severely damage the humanSentinel hybrids.[15]
When the New XMen are home alone with Beast, she, Mercury, and Rockslide go to put flowers on thegraves of their deceased friends only to find Predator X eating the corpses.[16] The three New XMen battlewith Predator X until Surge arrives, taking the beast on by herself, as the other three warn the others. Afteran intense battle across the remains of the school, Pixie teleports Predator X, herself, Dust, and the rest tothe XMen's final battle against the Marauders on Muir Island.[17]
On Muir Island, Dust is crucial in the success of the battle against the Marauders. She helps take out themassively powerful and dangerous Exodus, by entering his body in her sand form and lacerating his lungswhile he was distracted by Emma Frost.[18]
Secret Invasion
Dust is among the several XMen helping to fight off Skrulls during their invasion of San Francisco.[19] Sheteams with Pixie and used her sandform alongside Pixie's teleportation to strategically provide cloud coverand evacuation for various other XMen engaging in battle. She also pairs with Mercury, Pixie and themembers of XForce in a decoy attempt at capturing a Skrull.
Young XMen
Main article: Young XMen
Sometime after Cyclops disbanded the institute, Sooraya had returned to Afghanistan. Sooraya is seendriving a group of Taliban guerillas from a small town and declaring the town to be under her protection,with the Taliban thinking she is some sort of extension of Allah's wrath. Shortly afterwards, Cyclopsappears, asking her to return to New York to join his new team of Young XMen.
Unaware that "Cyclops" was actually Donald Pierce in disguise, the Young XMen proceed with their firstmission to take down a new Brotherhood of Mutants supposedly composed of the original New Mutants. Inthe ensuing battle against Magma, a blast of flame turns Dust's sand form into glass. Sooraya's glass form islater shattered into hundreds of glass fragments in a battle between Donald Pierce and Graymalkin.However, Magma used her powers to return the glass back into sand and Sooraya is able to revert to humanform. Realizing that they were used by Pierce, the Young XMen and former New Mutants defeat Pierce,albeit with the death of Wolf Cub, and Sooraya joins the real XMen in San Francisco.[20]
During a conversation with the nowincarcerated Pierce, Sooraya revealed to him that she is dying.[21] It islater revealed during a confrontation with the YMen that part of her arm appears to still be locked in glassform.[22] Her condition is worsening, as more of her body turns to glass. Beast conducts tests and confirmsher prognosis, giving her less than a week to live. She demands that this be kept a secret, despite Beast'soffer to find a way to save her. She later has a final conversation with Donald Pierce who offers to save herin return for his release, stating that he has since grown to appreciate Sooraya and their conversations.
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However when the XMen try to stop them, during the confrontation Dust is found by Danielle Moonstar,dead.[23] Her body is then prepared for burial, though Ink intends to use his untested Phoenix Force tattoo torevive her. It succeeds, and Dust is revived, though the strain leaves Ink catatonic. Dust happily rejoins herteammates and her revival convinces the Young XMen not to disband.
Necrosha
Dust is seen with Emma and Mercury, and then is shown fighting Wither. When Onyxx is killed by Kevin,she is shown mourning him.
Second Coming
Dust is seen as part of the second team defending the Golden Gate Bridge from Nimrod Sentinels from thefuture. She along with Magma, Rockslide, Namor and Colossus attempt to hold the Nimrod position andprevent them from reaching Utopia.
Curse of the Mutants
Due to her silicon based sand form, Dust is assigned to a "Tough Skin" team of XMen to defend Utopiaagainst a vampire invasion force.
Post Schism
Initial solicits for the postSchism XMen split showed Dust siding with the majority of younger XMenand moving to Westchester as part of Wolverine's team. She was seen on the blackbird ready to leave, andwas seen walking away on the side of Wolverine in the ‘caveman metaphor’ sequence in the XMenRegenesis oneshot. However, as of the release of Wolverine & the XMen #1 Dust is nowhere to be seenand does not appear on the roster. With the release of Uncanny XMen #1, Dust is shown still residing inUtopia and a part of the San Francisco street team under Dazzler. Dust is also seen among her fellowstudents in a class session in XMen Legacy 260.1. Dust appears again as part of the Recruits in XMenLegacy #262 on Cyclops' team, who came to aid Wolverine's Team against Exodus (Bennet du Paris),alongside Surge and Generation Hope. It is explained in XMen: Legacy #263 that Dust originally went toWestchester, but changed her mind and returned to Utopia before the events of Uncanny XMen #1.
Powers and abilities
Dust can transform herself into an explosive cloud of sandlike silicon particles and maintain control of hersand form. She can reform her normal body at will or maintain an aerial based sand form in the shape of herhuman body. Her sandstorm form is resistant to most forms of injury. The form makes her hard to detecttelepathically, according to Jean Grey and Professor X, and according to New XMen vol. 2 #42, resistant tomagic. She can use the form to attack, for instance, scouring the flesh from her enemies' bones like asandstorm as well as enter people's lungs and scouring them from the inside.
Telekinetic beings can take control of her sand particles. Dust has also demonstrated a major weakness towater. Her sand form has been stopped by being doused with water several times in combat. She can also bedefeated if the air she travels through is manipulated (such as during her fight with Wind Dancer). Her sand
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Dust uses her powers
form is also vulnerable to extremes of heat, causing it to crystallise into glass, paralysing her. Like manytransmorphs, she reverts to her human form if exhausted or knocked unconscious.
Family
Sooraya is still searching in hopes of being reunited with her mother, Mirah Qadir. Currently, Emma Frosthas been trying to locate Mirah, but to no avail.
Observing Islamic Hijab
In line with Sooraya's character as a traditional Muslim, shechooses to observe Islamic hijab by donning traditional dress.Sooraya explains to her mother that she always observes hijabbecause of the modesty it affords her from men, and never didit because of the Taliban's enforcement of hijab on women. Hermother is happy that she lives somewhere where she is able tomake those choices, unlike in Afghanistan.[24] Characters in thecomics often refer to Dust's traditional Muslim outfit as aburqa. However, the outfit Dust wears is an abaya with a niqābfor her face, an ensemble originating in and worn mostly byMuslim women in the Persian Gulf states of the Middle East. InNew XMen vol. 2 #42, Gentle is the first to get it right whilecorrecting fellow student Pixie.
Some artists depict Sooraya's abaya incorrectly, having ittightly cinched around her body, which disregards the purposeof wearing an abaya.
Other versions
Although Dust is a character in the main Marvel Universe continuity (also called "Earth616,"), she has alsobeen depicted in other fictional universes and alternate futures.
House of M
Sooraya appears as a member of the New Mutants in the House of M continuity. She appears to haveformed a very close friendship with Jubilee and become Westernized, wearing revealing clothes andenjoying stereotypical 'mall rat' activities, although it is revealed that she may carry some reservations andresentments for trading in on her morals and beliefs for her Western behavior. Like the rest of the Hellionsand New Mutants, she travels to Japan to fight against Emperor Sunfire in order to close down ProjectGenesis.
XMen: The End
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In the alternate time line depicted in XMen: The End, Sooraya remains at the institute as the caretaker ofCyclops and Emma Frost's children. During the attack on the Institute, Sooraya encounters Madelyne Pryor,asking if she is Jean Grey returning to the school. Madelyne lashes out and Sooraya defends herself,seemingly defeating Madelyne and escaping the Institute before it explodes. It is later revealed that the"Dust" who escaped the encounter was really Madelyne, disguised in Sooraya's abaya. Upon revealing hertrue identity, Cyclops states that he already knew it was her and that the real Sooraya died back at theschool.
Young XMen "End of Days"
In a dystopic future depicted in the final two issues of "Young XMen," Sooraya appears before the lastremaining mutants on the once mutant safehaven and independent state of "Xaviera." She easily killsWolverine and kills Graymalkin and Emma Frost. Before killing him, Sooraya explains to Anole that she isdoing this because mutants are a "plague" upon the world and that she has become its cure, "a storm thatwipes clean the earth." She reaches a now decrepit Ink, who has a brief conversation with her regarding herrevival in the past. They both discuss that his actions corrupted her, "killing" her soul and she reveals thatshe still harbors resentment over "mutants" allowing her to die in the first place. She states that she is sorry,as she knows his actions were good at heart, and kills him.[25]
In this future depiction, Sooraya no longer observes Islamic hijab, wearing a tight outfit exposing her faceand her cleavage. Her eyes glow red and she has combustive powers in addition to her original abilities.[25]
In other media
Television
Dust first appears in the Wolverine and the XMen episode "Hindsight" Pt. 1 voiced by Tara Strong. Shefirst appears as a captive of the MRD. She and others are freed by Wolverine and Dust uses her mutantabilities to take out some MRD jets.[26] Dust also appears in "Greetings from Genosha" where she informsNightcrawler about Magneto's underground cells. She also ends up in Magneto's underground cells as aprisoner.
Novels
In the XMen: The Last Stand novel by Chris Claremont, Sooraya is mentioned by Rogue.
Film
Dust makes a brief cameo in XMen Origins: Wolverine as one of the imprisoned mutants at WilliamStryker's facility.
Video Games
Dust makes a brief cameo in Deadpool's ending in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds.
References
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1. Grant Morrison (w), Ethan Van Sciver (p), Norm Rapmund (i). "Dust" New XMen 1 (December 2002), MarvelComics
2. Abbas, Faisal (20060914). "9/11 and the Birth of the "Muslim Action Hero" ". Asharq Alawsat. Retrieved20090320.
3. New XMen #1334. New XMen: Academy X (vol. 1) #25. New XMen #1466. New XMen: Academy X #27. New XMen: Academy X #148. New XMen #239. New XMen #2210. New XMen #2511. New XMen #2712. New XMen #3213. New XMen #424314. New XMen Vol.2 #44 (2008)15. Uncanny XMen #493 (2008)16. XFactor Vol.3 #27 (2008)17. New XMen Vol.2 #46 (2008)18. XMen Vol.2 #207 (2008)19. Secret Invasion: XMen #120. Young XMen #1621. Young XMen #722. Young XMen #823. Young XMen #1124. New XMen: Hellions #225. Young XMen #1226. Wolverine e os XMen (Wolverine and the XMen) Ep. 1 "Hindsight Pt. 1"
External links
Dust (http://marvel.com/universe/Dust) at Marvel.com
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